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<span class="top">The Book of Philippians</span><HR NOSHADE>
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<td class="v">2:1</td>
<td>If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,</td>
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<td class="v">2:2</td>
<td>Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.</td>
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<td class="v">2:3</td>
<td>Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.</td>
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<td class="v">2:4</td>
<td>Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.</td>
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<td class="v">2:5</td>
<td>Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:</td>
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<td class="v">2:6</td>
<td>Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:</td>
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<td class="v">2:7</td>
<td>But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:</td>
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<td class="v">2:8</td>
<td>And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.</td>
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<td class="v">2:9</td>
<td>Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:</td>
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<td class="v">2:10</td>
<td>That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;</td>
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<td class="v">2:11</td>
<td>And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.</td>
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<td class="v">2:12</td>
<td>Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.</td>
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<td class="v">2:13</td>
<td>For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.</td>
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<td class="v">2:14</td>
<td>Do all things without murmurings and disputings:</td>
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<td class="v">2:15</td>
<td>That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;</td>
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<td class="v">2:16</td>
<td>Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.</td>
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<td class="v">2:17</td>
<td>Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.</td>
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<td class="v">2:18</td>
<td>For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.</td>
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<td class="v">2:19</td>
<td>But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.</td>
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<td class="v">2:20</td>
<td>For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.</td>
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<td class="v">2:21</td>
<td>For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.</td>
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<td class="v">2:22</td>
<td>But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.</td>
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<td class="v">2:23</td>
<td>Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.</td>
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<td class="v">2:24</td>
<td>But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.</td>
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<td class="v">2:25</td>
<td>Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.</td>
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<td class="v">2:26</td>
<td>For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.</td>
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<td class="v">2:27</td>
<td>For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.</td>
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<td class="v">2:28</td>
<td>I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.</td>
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<td class="v">2:29</td>
<td>Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:</td>
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<td class="v">2:30</td>
<td>Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.</td>
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